In order to facilitate the creation of high quality, secure and compliant open standards and source code, the Foundation has adopted the lifecycle described below. The lifecycle states provide a high-level, "at a glance" measure of the maturity of the given activity's work products, and are intended to help potential consumers and collaborators quickly determine where the community's activity is currently focused.
Project Lifecycle
All open source projects hosted by the Foundation go through some or all of the following lifecycle: